Thank you for leaving a review. We value your feedback. Many of our opportunities are in a manufacturing environment on a 12 hour shift. With the 12 hour schedule, you do work less days in the year with 3 days one week/ and 4 days the next versus the typical 5 days every week on an 8 hour schedule. We also offer overtime incentives shift swaps, and flex weekend hours to meet the needs of our employees. We encourage applicants to learn about our work schedules and environment as it does not fit everyone’s needs but we do offer options to our employees.... MoreLess

I have been working at Reynolds Consumer Products full-time (More than a year)

Pros

Free Coffee and covered parking

Cons

They literally call themselves "Fast and Furious" in town hall meetings, complete with inspirational quotes from the movie franchise for pre-teens. Only Michael Scott from Dunder MIfflin could have come up with a more inspiring theme. Like Dunder Mifflin they are a dinosaur of a company, looking for relevancy in a world that is changing much faster than they can.

Advice to Management

Try to put just a little serious thought into your strategy and culture.

Lacks leadership and motivation from management. No recognition for your hard work which will eventually beat you down. The company is setting unrealistic goals in short timelines which only leads to failure. A once good company is now being driven downwards, which from the looks of it isn't getting better due to the high turnover rate. Morale is the lowest I have ever seen at a company.

Advice to Management

Invest in your employees as they are the most important asset to the company. Build development programs and have rewards to build morale within the company.

Thank you for leaving a review. We are pleased to hear about your positive experience at Reynolds Consumer Products. Our employees play a major role in the success of our company and we strive to keep our employees professionally challenged by providing opportunities for work life balance along with a comprehensive benefits package.... MoreLess

I have been working at Reynolds Consumer Products full-time (More than 5 years)

Pros

Depending on where you are in your life/career Reynolds could be a good choice. There's a definite "Joy Luck Club" feel to the marketing department and even more so in the broader organization. The company plays well with the mature crowd that live up on the North Shore and want to run out the clock on their career in a relatively low-stress environment, close to home and with good pay- Recognizable brands- By-in-large fantastic people; really good eggs with a lot of respect for work/life- If commodities break in the right direction you'll make a nice cash bonus; cash compensation overall is strong; benefits are good- Over-inflated titles; a lot of Presidents and Vice Presidents running around and you'll likely also get a title that's one-up from what you'd get elsewhere- Very reasonable hours; you could fire a cannon through that place at 8 am or 5:30 pm and you wouldn't hit a single person

Cons

Reynolds is a completely operationally/commercially driven business. You can park your b-school Strategy books on the shelf---you won't need them. Every role in the company is about execution and tactics---no issue is "too small" for senior executives (or even the CEO) to be involved.

In terms of "Marketing" in the traditional sense---most businesses have little (to none) and it's the first thing to go when the going gets tough---you'll spend a lot of time (as will your VP) agonizing over your 1 online video and 2 Facebook posts because that's probably your plan for the year (in most cases)...

For the most part these businesses are brutal....just absolutely brutal...low-involvement, no growth categories....businesses constantly "at risk"....constantly "bidding" (i.e. dropping price) to retain business....your "marketing plan" and ability to hit it are constantly subject to the whims and fancies of the latest Walmart buyer

The line between Marketing and Sales isn't blurred, it doesn't really exist at all. Your first priority will always be to humbly be in service of the sales organization and the customer...Line reviews, pricing management, responding to customer requests---that's all you....this means very heavy doses of project management...if they want a pack size changed within an impossible time-frame--you'd better get at it...and your counterpart in Sales may not match your intellectual capacity but that won't change the fact this his/her word will always carry more weight than yours within the organization....Marketing is "nice", Sales is "essential"

Advancement will be hard to come by....the company isn't exactly a growth engine and it's hard to create opportunities out of thin air

This plays off the pros above....you need to look at it in balance and decide what's right

Advice to Management

Many of the cons are a function of the business/industry and out of your control. A lot of positive changes have been made to make it a better place to work....try to keep moving in that direction even if the business takes a turn for the worse

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